How Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion (CVCC) Works

Inside Honda’s AMAZING innovation to avoid the catalytic converter.

Le t’s go back in time — to the wonderful decade of the 1970s. Richard Nixon is the president of the United States. The U.S. is in the midst of the Vietnam conflict, and oil prices are just beginning to rise dramatically. Emissions standards are also being realized as a needed adjustment to life to protect the environment. In the United States, most cars are more akin to yachts — sporting massive, gas-guzzling V8 engines and heavy steel bodies.

Despite their weight, most American cars also came with very little standard equipment. Modern-day amenities like power-steering, air-conditioning, and even radios were not considered necessary in the automobiles at the time.

Meanwhile, in Japan, a man named Sorichio Honda was continuing to refine both his small line of automobiles, as well as his motorcycles. Honda had a strong desire to infiltrate the American market with his automobiles, and had no anticipation of backing down from that dream. This was also a time when Toyota was ruling over Japan with an iron fist, and the Japanese auto market was incredibly competitive. Fortunately for Honda, his motorcycles were selling just the right amount as he approached the problem of creating his next big…